A century of anecdote from 1760 to 1860, Volume 1R. Bentley, 1864 - Anecdotes |
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... exclaim , " Confound the Tower of Babel ! " he was asked by the teacher what he meant ; when he replied , “ If it were not for the Tower of Babel , there would be no languages to learn ! " He was then studying Latin and Greek . THOMSON ...
... exclaim , " Confound the Tower of Babel ! " he was asked by the teacher what he meant ; when he replied , “ If it were not for the Tower of Babel , there would be no languages to learn ! " He was then studying Latin and Greek . THOMSON ...
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... exclaimed the Doctor , 66 one of these days the streets of London will be lighted by smoke ! ” -See Notes and Queries , No. 127 . JOHNSON'S RAMBLE IN LONDON . One night when Topham Beauclerk and Langton had supped at a tavern in London ...
... exclaimed the Doctor , 66 one of these days the streets of London will be lighted by smoke ! ” -See Notes and Queries , No. 127 . JOHNSON'S RAMBLE IN LONDON . One night when Topham Beauclerk and Langton had supped at a tavern in London ...
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... exclaimed , ' Then we are all undone ! ' Dr. Pellet , who was not a credulous man , inquired into the truth of this story , and he said the evidence was irresistible . My wife went to the Hummums ( it is a place where people get ...
... exclaimed , ' Then we are all undone ! ' Dr. Pellet , who was not a credulous man , inquired into the truth of this story , and he said the evidence was irresistible . My wife went to the Hummums ( it is a place where people get ...
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... exclaimed to it : " Oh ! the little dear , is he going to open his eyesy - pysy ? ” " Stop the coach , driver ! " shouted Johnson ; and the woman had to get out , and finish her journey on foot . PROPER PLACES . When Dr. Johnson was ...
... exclaimed to it : " Oh ! the little dear , is he going to open his eyesy - pysy ? ” " Stop the coach , driver ! " shouted Johnson ; and the woman had to get out , and finish her journey on foot . PROPER PLACES . When Dr. Johnson was ...
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... exclaimed that it was that wearisome body , " meaning a neighbouring minister , who was famous for never leaving a house after he had once got into it . " Keep him out , " cried the Doctor , " don't let the cratur in here . " But before ...
... exclaimed that it was that wearisome body , " meaning a neighbouring minister , who was famous for never leaving a house after he had once got into it . " Keep him out , " cried the Doctor , " don't let the cratur in here . " But before ...
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Page 120 - Boz," my signature in the Morning Chronicle, appended to the monthly cover of this book, and retained long afterwards, was the nickname of a pet child, a younger brother, whom I had dubbed Moses, in honor of the Vicar of Wakefield ; which being facetiously pronounced through the nose, became Boses, and being shortened, became Boz. " Boz " was a very familiar household word to me, long before I was an author, and so I came to adopt it.